Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures."
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Bob Marley
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already."
James D. Watson
Molecular Biologist, Geneticist
"It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant."
Zig Ziglar
Author, Motivational Speaker
"The best time to do something significant is between yesterday and tomorrow."
Stephen Covey
Author, Speaker
"The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be."
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"Anyone who spends a significant amount of time with me finds me disagreeable."
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"Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."
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"They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again."
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"If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences."
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"In God's eyes the most significant is often the most hidden."
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"It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion."
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"It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route."
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"What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process."
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"Close scrutiny of an object in nature will nearly always yield some significant fact."
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"The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant."
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"In life's most significant moments we are always alone."
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"The rabbit is significant in that the handle on the original South Pointing Chariot was carved in the form of a rabbit. Because the handle extended out front it meant that wherever the rabbit went the chariot had to follow."
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"To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom."
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"The significant owl hoots in the night."
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"If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society."
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"Money can't buy life."
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"Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training."
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"I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart."
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"It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency."
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"Drugs have played no significant factor in my life."
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